New Year, New Career: Becoming a PADI Instructor

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Are you bored of the office? Do you dream of every diving holiday being more than just a holiday? Is it time to start doing what you really love? Becoming a PADI Instructor not only means a new career, it can lead to a life of travel, adventure and so much more. To find out […]

Earn College Credit through PADI Scuba Diving Courses

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Studying Gap Year Scuba You know that awesome scuba course you just finished? Did you know it could count towards college credit? Diving is full of surprises. Your first breath underwater is an unforgettable moment. That first dive with just you and your buddy is a true voyage of discovery and an adventure you’ll retell for decades to come. […]

FORCE BLUE Deploys Special Forces Veterans to Save Coral Reefs

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FORCE BLUE is a nonprofit organization that provides a new mission for former combat divers and Special Operation Force (SOF) veterans: healing endangered coral reefs. Its three co-founders, Chief Executive Director Jim Ritterhoff, Director Keith Sahm of PADI® Five Star IDC Sunset House in Grand Cayman and Director and former combat diver and Recon Marine […]

Chris Stevens Comes Face to Face With the Rare Sevengill Shark

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sevengill-shark Article written by PADI AmbassaDiver, Chris Stevens Having travelled the world and been a certified scuba diver since 2009, I’ve been lucky enough to tick quite a lot off my scuba diving bucket list in various locations across the globe. However, the diving in Cape Town in South Africa was very much a truly spectacular […]

Marine Life Dating and Mating

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Mating Flatworms February is Creative Romance Month and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a place where love gets more creative than in the ocean. Imagine if you could only mate during the full moon, or if you had to worry about your partner eating you. Maybe you’d choose to reproduce without a partner, or fight about who […]

PADI Celebrates a Milestone with 25 Million Certifications

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PADI 25 Millionth Certificate Winner   On 29 December 2016, in the final days of PADI’s golden anniversary year, a milestone was reached. Sarah Gleeson, a 22-year-old from Alberta, Canada, became a PADI® Open Water Diver earning her PADI’s 25 millionth certification. To celebrate the occasion, and 50 years as The Way the World Learns to Dive®, PADI gifted Gleeson and […]